Summer has come and gone, fall is here and soon winter. We have been doing some Christmas shopping and trying to get some things taken care of. While looking at my lists of things I wanted to make I found some great ornaments to make. I forgot all about them now my plan is to make some to decorate the house with fabric ornaments of … Continue reading Can You believe 2017 is almost over??
The 2nd dragonfly is done and I am trying to decide on colors for the other 3. I like the idea of bright greens, a purple and need a yellow or gold or something else for the 3rd. I think the purple will be shades of purple and same as green. Not sure about the brown one. Any suggestions? I did get a Fairy Princess … Continue reading 2nd Dragonfly done
Today I got 1 out of 4 dragonflies completed. This wall hanging will be 40×40. I am loving this.I will need to trim up a few edges, but then it will be ready for another friend. I also completed my Gingerbread man from The Christmas Sew A Long with Farmhouse Quilts and Teadoodles. I figured Gingie wanted to go to the beach so here he … Continue reading Oh, What a Wonderful Playday
I have finally gotten regular house hold chores done so I can spend time in the sewing room. Granddaughter #1, Katelin is away at college and wants some ID badge holders and so I have been making some. They keep evolving. I found a pattern on Craftsy that was free, but she had too many steps and I got frustrated and confused so I trashed … Continue reading Organized finally
I have been putting things away from our trip and now am ready to start on the next project. Monique, https://farmhousequilts.blog/2017/09/25/merry-christmas-sew-along-september-ornament/ has sew along Christmas Ornaments going and I am behind on the ornament from last week so I will be working on this, and having spent so much time in Quilt Shops I have so many ideas floating around in the brain. I will work … Continue reading Ready to quilt
The last 10 days I have been time traveling. Starting with arriving in the America’s on the Mayflower at Plymouth, MA. We take a trip on a whaling ship to see how the whalers and fishermen lived. Then on to the burning of the “Witches” in Salem, MA. It seems people have been mean to each other when we are a little different for too long. … Continue reading Time traveling
We walked over 5 miles today walking the Lexington/Concord Minutemen trail this morning and then spending over 2 hours walking around Boston. Tomorrow will find us walking around Boston some more. Had some great Lobster Rolls for dinner.. It was good, but tomorrow we will have whole lobsters. Fabric shops are closed today, it being Sunday and so we will see what happens. I think … Continue reading Feet Hurt
I know I missed day 4, but we were so tired last night we crashed. Today was Vermont, and Maine. We did stop at Keepsake Quilts and got some goodies and then spent the day in the mountains. For dinner tonite we had pulled pork and beer at a place in Freeport, ME called Gritty’s. Was so good I tried their raspberry beer. It was … Continue reading Day 5
Got to Gettysburg, PA early and spent 4 hours driving around the battle field. Seeing all these markers, cannons, and reading about each person makes you FEEL the history and understand more the agony, sadness, and the passion each side fought for. It is so different seeing places like this than reading about it in books. Pictures of this to come later. Later in the … Continue reading Day 3
We have has some Very long days in the car, but it has been so worth it. I have been to 5 states and 3 quilt shops. Today we went to a quilt shop in a ladies home, this one had a 5 star rating in the Row by Row quilts and it earned it. Nonna’s Cottage in Zanesville, Ohio. I loved that shop and … Continue reading Day 2
